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Chapter 4. Create Initial Process Stability 65
Sort
Clear out rarely used items
by red tagging
Sustain Straighten
Use regular audits Organize and label a place
to stay disciplined
for everything
Eliminate
Waste
Standardize
Shine
Create procedures to
Clean it
maintain the first 3 S’s
Figure 4-2. The 5S process
Consolidate Waste Activities to Capture
Benefits
This strategy is often overlooked because of misguided beliefs. One such belief
is that individual efficiencies can be maximized if each person works independ-
ently. In this way the problems encountered by one operation do not negative-
ly influence others. As we will see in the next chapter, this philosophy will allow
problems to be minimized, which makes the urgency to correct them also min-
imal. In addition this thinking allows for isolated waste activities that are
absorbed by each person. Each operation then carries a high waste burden, and
in many cases the waste is identical to wasteful procedures required at other
operations.
